The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 128
He kicked the fire with his foot, and the sparks flew up.
Who acts: man, sparks · What happens: kick, fly up · To what, where: fire
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, sparks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kicked | nsubj |
| 2 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fire | det |
| 4 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kicked | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 foot | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 foot | nmod:poss |
| 7 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kicked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 flew | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sparks | det |
| 11 | sparks | spark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flew | nsubj |
| 12 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kicked | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 flew | compound:prt |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kicked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick | past | man | the fire | with man's foot | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent fire=Patient with foot=Instrument | |||
| 2 | fly up | past | the sparks | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 236 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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